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At one point, when I was 20 and living in Kentucky, I got shot - it was a land dispute over six inches of property that ran a hundred yards through my grandfather's land. It was really over the honor of my family and that of another family.

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I miss England. I miss the weather. I've spent moss of the last 25 years on tour. I'm ready to come home.

-- Sting

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THE MOMENT OF CHOICE A moment of choice is a moment of truth. It's the testing point of our character and competence.

-- Stephen Covey

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I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

-- Ray Bradbury

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We as economic society are going to have to pay our whole population to go to school and pay it to stay at school.

-- Richard Buckminster Fuller

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When you can't get what you want, get what you need

-- Benny Bellamacina

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Do you know whether or not you are in God's grace?Joan: If I am not, may God put me there; and if I am, may God so keep me.

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It does not take a great supernatural heroine or magical hero to save the world.We all save it every day, and we all destroy it - in our own small ways - by every choice we make and every tiniest action resulting from that choice.The next time you feel useless and impotent, remember what you are in fact doing in . And then observe your tiny, seemingly meaningless acts and choices coalesce and cascade together into a powerful positive whole.The world - if it could - will thank you for it.And if it does n

-- Vera Nazarian

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Quick dinner with ... Ang [Lee] and his wife Jane who's visiting with the children for a while. We talked about her work as a microbiologist and the behaviour of the epithingalingie under the influence of cholesterol. She's fascinated by cholesterol. Says it's very beautiful: bright yellow. She says Ang is wholly uninterested. He has no idea what she does.I check this out for myself. 'What does Jane do?' I ask.'Science,' he says vaguely.

-- Emma Thompson

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Not only is New York City the nation's melting pot, it is also the casserole, the chafing dish and the charcoal grill.

-- John Lindsay

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